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virus with mIRC?

last week i was in an channel an over 100 persons joined the channel flooded something i didn't understand and i had to reboot my pc....then my antivirus software said that i have an worm on my computer....did the worm comes from the irc?

The worm pings many different IRC servers. When it receives a reply, it connects to a channel on that server using many different internal usernames, and waits for further instructions from an attacker. The list of IRC servers includes:

Klez....ah..open any funky mail as of late? as far as I know Klez only spreads through Mail, as for the channel attack..prolly asome warbot's...would't really do much other than knock you offline perhaps...
Oh well...ma 2 cents.

- Noia

With all the subtlety of an artillery barrage / Follow blindly, for the true path is sketchy at best. .:Bring OS X to x86!:.